Absence Quotes

1418 Absence quotes by 972 unique authors

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered,… — Bruce Wilkinson
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold… — Jennifer Weiner
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his… — Jodi Picoult
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I… — Alice Sebold
Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land… — Unknown Author
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . .… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover… — Linda Pastan
And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and… — T.A. Barron
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. — Julius Lester
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it… — Gregory Maguire
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I… — Toni Morrison
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and… — Margaret Atwood
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. — E L Konigsburg
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. — William S. Burroughs
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and… — Pascal Mercier

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